Russian Foreign Policy - The Paradox of Russian History

Russia has a border surprisingly with North Korea, not just with China and Mongolia but it goes so far as to be a bordering state to North Korea. But again the paradox of Russian history is that in acquiring these territories through conquest new enemies have been created. So you defend yourself from the old enemies by acquiring territory but in the acquisition of these new territories you also create new enemies for yourself. I think that what Putin judged in February and probably the military planning begins at least a year if not two years before February 2022 I think what he judged is that from his point of view Ukraine was drifting out of the Russian orbit. We in this class will go much further in the discussion and description of Ukrainian